Feeding Dogs Raw

[2006]

[Attendee]

I have a dog that's 13 and he's in good health. I, I feed him a raw meat in between the meals and I'm starting to put raw meat in with his crunchies, breakfast and dinner. What else should I be doing this? Because he's not good, he's pretty healthy.

Should be giving him anything?

[Aajonus]

I wouldn't feed him anything, but. You know, a dog in the wild is a scavenger, but mainly they eat raw meat. That's their diet, raw bones. Is he a small dog or a large dog?

[Attendee]

No, he's 60 pounds.

[Aajonus]

60 pounds. Well, he should be eating red meat and bones.

[Attendee]

Okay. I noticed the crunchies are wearing his teeth down, so I've been putting it in water.

[Aajonus]

Well, if he's already getting deterioration of his teeth, he's not in good health.

[Attendee]

Really?

[Attendee #2]

Yeah. You think he's, but he's not.

[Aajonus]

Once they start losing their teeth and his teeth-

[Attendee]

No, his teeth are fine, I see they start wearing down.

[Aajonus]

That's a bad sign because all dogs in the wild don't wear down their teeth and they eat huge bones. Their teeth, their dentine, constantly regenerate.

[Attendee #2]

He can barely get up. He has a hard time getting up.

[Attendee]

I give him glucosamine twice a day.

[Attendees]

*Laughs*

[Aajonus]

Give it to the vet, shove it up his butt.

[Attendee]

Really? He seems like he's getting up outta his teeth better, he seems like he's walking better.

[Attendee #2]

He's not walking better.

[Aajonus]

Just give him the raw meat, the eggs, the honey and butter.

[Attendee]

Instead of the Crunchies?

[Aajonus]

The Crunchies and Gardens. That's not a dog food.

That's industrial food that tells you it's dog food.

[Attendee #3]

Can you just buy the regular beef instead of getting the good stuff?

[Aajonus]

Get 'em the worst beef you can, I mean, not the, you should get them New Zealand, but get all the garbage pieces, all the stuff that they throw away.

[Attendee #2]

All the organs and everything.

[Aajonus]

All the stuff that they throw. I have people who have the dogs they go to these health food stores and say, give me about five pounds of your throwaway meat and fat. You get 'em for .50 cents a pound, a dollar a pound.